October 2026

Resident Evil: Afterlife -10/09/2026

Resident Evil: Extinction -10/07/2026

Primetime -10/06/2026

Lanterns -10/04/2026

The History of Concrete (2026) -10/04/2026

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) -10/03/2026

Resident Evil (2002) - 10/01/2026

September 2026

I had an intention to write less per post this month, but I ended up hardly writing on things at all. It was a pretty quiet month for movies with only Onslaught and Resident Evil to talk about. Thinking about them together is interesting. They're both going for a horror comedy thing, and while Resident Evil might be more well made, I'm more fond of Onsluaght. It just felt weirder and had more going on. I ended up watching Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma again as well. A second watch didn't really change my feelings on it.

90 Day Fiancé wrapped up with a banger of a 3 part tell-all. I think it's great that they milked an extra episode out of it by sending them out together. The Double Lives of Suburban Wives is also over, and that went out with a fizzle. Lanterns is still going strong. It has a lot going on and I can't imagine they'll stick the landing, but it's refreshing to see a higher prestige show so unabashedly about race again. I think never watching any of the Marvel tv shows has also made the superhero stuff still feel endearing for me to some degree.

I'm so glad that Octopath Traveler 2 clicked for me on a third try and I was able to finally finish it. A Big Walk was also a fun one to play. It was a different kind of co-op experience than I'm used to, and any issues were with what I want out of gaming with my friends I guess. Blood Dungeon on the other hand is so classic video-gamey and I love it. I also weirdly ended up spending most of the month playing demos. I started the Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter demo, bought it and am so impressed with the level of world building they have achieved already. It's exciting to think I still have like 60 hours left + 10ish other games after it. Retro Rewind is a fun video store sim that I tried out and ended up buying too. It's cute and simple, real repititve brain off game to play while watching youtube videos. Maybe I'll write about it next month. I also played the Final Fantasy Resonance demo and am pretty excited about that one coming out soon. It feels like an Octopath game reskinned with final fantasy characters.

September felt like a great bookend for a weird summer, even though it continues to be too hot and I continue to be too unemployed. It ended with family and friends, and a reminder of the full life I've had. I really am so lucky, and I need to carry those feelings with me. I want to wield them like a shield against my own high expectations of myself and all the existential dread that get's piled on top of it. I saw a sign in a yard that said "Everything will be okay in the end. If It's not okay, then it's not the end." It felt cheesy in the moment, but I fully agree with the sentiment.

August 2026

I’m surprised to look back on this month and only see four movies one the list, but that really was it. At least they were all pretty enjoyable. My rewatch of The Piano made me fall in love with it even more, truly just such a movie. Following that up with End of Oak street… which was bad all things considered but also still enjoyable. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma was unfortunately a let down in ways I wasn’t expecting. I’m really curious with how other people have experienced that movie though, I just left a birthday party where one lesbian couple was raving about it. They also shared some gossip a few people removed on Hannah Einbinder. Do lesbians care about Hanna Einbinder? No offense, but why? Does she have some sort of twitter or instagram presence that I am just not exposed to? Anyway. After all the ruminating on Teenage S & D, Coyote vs Acme was a nice movie to just enjoy and not really have much to say about other than “that was fun!”

After the thoroughly disappointing The Vampire Lestat, it’s been nice taking tv show watching less serious. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed was a fun little thriller that I think could be even better in a second season. Reminds me of Killing Eve a bit but nowhere near as tight. We finally finished the Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins too, and that was nice to just kind of have on the back burner and occasionally watch. The early days of this month were still dominated by playing Fields of Mistria. I finished the mines, got married, and have kind of stepped away from it for now.

As for things I’m still actively getting through: This season of 90 Day is not the craziest IMO but it does have some stand out characters. We’ve also added Double Lives of Suburban Wives which is trying to mix the documentary/anthropologic sense with the real housewife and it doesn’t really blend great yet.Lanterns has started off pretty solid, but I do not have any expectations. We’ve also been watching Love it or List it during this lull in narrative television and the transition to Paige Turner as the cohost feels pretty seamless, at least for someone who has not been following the show in any real way other than random reruns when I would be visiting my parents. I also bought Octopath Traveler 2 on sale and been dumping hours into that. Blood Dungeon is yet another auto-shooter but with added platforming elements that has been a lot of fun to play.

It feels like it’s been summer forever, but It’s really only been uncomfortably hot where I live for a little over a month now. I shared my thoughts on writing and what it does for me, and I hope to get better at letting myself process things in real time through lines and dots. I fluctuate between a deep frustration and then a sudden flash of contentment. Writing about it feels validating. Job hunting is the worst and I should also still let myself enjoy things that I am able to do. Such as this collage I made at a craft night with friends / “Do you think a depressed person could make this?”

July 2026

I saw a lot of different kinds of movies this month, kind of impressive in hindsight. Toy Story 5 was cute, Supergirl was nowhere near as bad as everybody says it was, The Invite was nowhere near as good as people made it out to be, Maddie's Secret felt like something impossible to pull off, and The Odyssey was just the summer blockbuster I needed. Real variety pack of a month. I also finished the new season of Love Island USA. I weirdly had a lot to say for a season that I ultimately found not great. I am currently getting through The Vampire Lestat which has also been rough... really quickly losing any confidence I had in the series. Goes to show how much of the heart was Louie and Claudia, and that Lestat's peacocking is only fun through someone else’s eyes. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed has been a lot more enjoyable. 90 Day Fiancé is eternal, god I wish I could be on that production team. Maybe I should try to pitch some post-doc project on it.

On the Video game front, I finished Raidou: Remastered, played the new co-op Fears to Fathom: Scratch Creek and actually completed a run in Slay the Spire 2. I haven’t written anything about that last one though, feels weird to write about it before it's even out of early access. Speaking of early access, Hell Maiden is a really fun and cool vampire survivor-like reimagining of Dante's Inferno with gender swapped anime characters and sapphic overtones. It's flashy and fun, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it grow. I am currently re-starting Fields of Mistria in anticipation of the full release next month. I went hard when it first got on early access and haven’t kept up with the updates. I am remembering how great it is, just the cast and world building of the town is so leagues ahead of other similar games.

I've also started blogging, and I promise it wont always be sparked by Pilates. I can’t help when Dionysus visits though. July has been a very weird month. It just feels like a real transitional phase. I have a doctorate and I'm having to contend with figuring out a life outside of school for the first time. It feels like I'm playing catch up in some ways. But, I am also very proud of myself for continuing to write and express my ideas. It feels good to write through it all, it's what earned me a doctoral degree after all.

For all the Odyssey woke discourse, I'm surprised that nobody brought up how Homer was actually a green haired lesbian of color: